Organ Donor

You are the head of one of the branches of a hospital chain. A 42 year old patient is bought in. He was on his way to drop his wife to her workplace when his motorcycle collides with that of a Police Sub Inspector. Patient has had internal head injuries. When he is got to … Read more

Nevis Networks

Started in 2003. Radha Shelat and Raghu Iyer are the directors. Work in the area of LAN security. Started by making chip sets using embedded software. In those times the concept of security was limited to anti viruses – and Nevis was ahead of its times. It was a 40 person maverick product company – … Read more

Social Designer

I am Ishita Yadav. I did my growing up in Saudi Arabia, where my father worked as an electrical engineer. I studied in the Indian Embassy school in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi lifestyle was good. I remember a lot of carpet shops on the ground floor of our building, which we kids used to roam … Read more

Post Lockdown Notes

Am not sure if lock up is the opposite of lock down.  Two opposites at first sight sound like two negatives. But even then open up seems the apt opposite of lock down. On 2 May, I invited some of this group members to a zoom chat to discuss open up. My notes on the … Read more

Midlife Entrepreneurship

My first interaction with Rashmi was sometime in the nineties. One of my students, Gaurav Sabnis, was working at IBM, after finishing his MBA from IIML. Gaurav was one of the first Indians on the blogging scene. He blogged about a B School chain, headquartered in Delhi, who were making great claims about their placements … Read more

Ghode aur Gaddhe

We had a very interesting session on Sun, 28-Oct-2013, moderated by Sameer Agashe. There were 11 of us present from the 1990/91 batch of COEP Mech, Electrical and E/TC. Here is some of the stuff we discussed. Why does your team work work for you? What motivates them? In the Maslow hierarchy of motivation, individuals … Read more

Engine Man

Bhanu’s dad was the seventh child of a landless labourer in Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur. He put himself to school on his own – and surprised the entire district by topping the matric exams of Bombay state in 1942. His achievement was noticed – and he ended up getting admitted to the prestigious BHU (There were no … Read more

Excerpt from World Bank report on Engineering Employability

The skills set of engineers can be characterized by three overall skills factors: (i) Core Employability Skills (which cover generic attitudinal and affective skills, such as reliability and team-work); (ii) Communication Skills (such as English skills, written and verbal communication), and (iii) Professional Skills (which generally covers cognitive skills related to the engineering professions, such … Read more

Bhavishya Nidhi

We  need to work on a product that helps students and parents: Discover their strengths             Move towards goal clarity             Explore new career options             Analyze the fit between goal and strengths As a future business, we need to understand the process of counselling. Was speaking to Ankur at Chandigarh in March. Asked him … Read more